Re:'42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shoo...
by LeifCarrotson on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:05PM
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Even more tragically, it's destroying both the Israeli people doing the shooting and the Palestinian people who are the victims, but it's not touching those who are setting the policies which lead to that situation nearly as viscerally.
Re:'42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shoo...
by rhizome on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:52PM
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>Palestinians are physically suffering most from this - but whether they acknowledge it or not, it's destroying the Israelis involved
The difference of course is that one is being attacked by others, and the other is doing it to themselves.
Re:'42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shoo...
by Udik on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:04PM
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> when somebody politely tells you that we need to wrap up the conference call, as there are incoming rockets.
I guess illegally occupying someone else's land, destroying their homes and forcing millions in an open air prison has its price.
I almost hoped it would stop at the half-way mark, so I could just shake my head at people I could despise, but it kept going.
My thoughts in no particular order:
Clearly the Palestinians are physically suffering most from this - but whether they acknowledge it or not, it's destroying the Israelis involved. Similar to the US involvement in VietNam - doesn't matter if you win/lose or even why - people who come back are changed.
I don't "blame Israel" - I work for an Israeli company. Not a choice, just a happenstance of a takeover. Quite an eye-opener when somebody politely tells you that we need to wrap up the conference call, as there are incoming rockets.
Only firm feeling I take away is that I loathe "dehumanization" - that pernicious and onmi-present trope that is rolled out by all sides in pretty much every country, under every circumstance - and has been forever.